In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.